Sonepur Mela
The annual Sonepur Fair is an authentic rural fair that combines spirituality with elephant, cattle, and horse trading.
It starts on the auspicious Hindu occasion of Kartik Purnima, when pilgrims take an early morning bath in the river, and continues for around three weeks. Street magicians, spiritual gurus, snack stalls, handicrafts, amusement rides, circus performers, and theater all create a carnival like atmosphere. The Fair also commemorates the intervention of Lord Vishnu to end a great curse and long fight between elephant and crocodile in Hindu mythology. Legend goes that the elephant bathing in the river was attacked by the crocodile and was saved by Lord Vishnu. The fair is traditionally known as cattle fair.
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Government of Bihar,
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Patna-800015,
Bihar, India
